Canopy-support and chandelier.



No. 810,068. i PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

' J. 0. MICK.

CANOPY SUPPORT AND GHANDELIER.

APPLICATION FILED D20, 30. 1904.

31 wznloz UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

JOSIAH O. MICK, OF GOSI-IEN, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-FIFTHS TO ALBERT J. BERKEY, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application filed December 30, 1904. Serial No. 239,035.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSIAH O. MIoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Canopy-Supports for Chandeliers, of which the following 1s a specification.

In gas and electric chandeliers as at present constructed an ornamental conoidalshaped hollow device is employed at the upper end of the pipe to hide the usually unsightly break in the ceiling or side wall where the pipe emerges. This ornamental device, called a canopy, is usually held in position by a ring slidably mounted on the pipe and secured in position by a set-screw or other clamping means.

It has been found that sand and small particles of plaster that break oil and remain in the canopy scratch and mar the ornamental casing of the pipe when the canopy is lowered by paper-hangers and decoraters and for other purposes; and my invention contemplates the addition of a sleeve secured to the upper edge of the securing-ring and ex tended up the pipe an appreciable distance inside of the canopy, so as to form, with the the lower end of the canopy, a movable pocket for the reception of the sand and particles of plaster and keep them from marring the casing of the pipe. By this construction the canopy can also be readily emptied by sliding the ring and sleeve downward. As at present constructed the only way the canopy can be emptied is by removing the chandelier from the ceiling.

My invention will be described in detail hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a view of a fragment of a chandelier, showing it depending from a ceiling, the canopy partly broken away and my improved support in position.

In the drawing, A represents the central pipe of a chandelier; B, the canopy; O, the securing-ring D, the sleeve made integral with the ring O and extending upwardly into the canopy B an appreciable distance, as shown, so as to form a pocket E to hold particles of plaster, sand, &c., that may become detached from the hole in the ceiling F where the gas-pipe or electric wires protrude or other means for holding the chandelier is secured.

G represents a set-screw for holding the ring 0 in position.

In operation my support is raised and lowered on the pipe A with the canopy, so that any particles of plaster and sand that may have dropped into the pocket E do not come into contact with the surface of the casing of said pipe, which isusually of a highly-polished metal and would be marred by scratches made by said sand or plaster. When it is desired to empty the pocket E, the ring 0 is drawn down from the canopy until the sleeve D emerges from its lower end, when the sand, grit, or particles of plaster contained therein will pour out through the opening between the canopy and casing of pipe A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In combination with the central pipe of a chandelier, a canopy mounted thereon, and a ring made of rigid material and slidably mounted on said pipe and adapted to hold the canopy in position, the upper edge of said ring extended to form a sleeve and adapted to extend inside of the canopy an appreciable distance and form, with the lower end of the canopy, a pocket, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereto afliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSIAH O. MICK.

Witnesses:

ORRIN WATTS, -JONATHAN S. YODER. 

